Veysi Dag is a research fellow of the Minerva Foundation at the Department of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is also a research associate at SOAS, University of London. His research interests focus on studies of migration and diaspora, governance, social movements and transnationalism, comparative politics with a focus on refugee and migration policies in Europe, peacebuilding and conflict transformation, and regional policy analysis with a focus on Middle Eastern politics and the Kurdish-Turkish conflict.

• 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Homeland Conditions: “Speaking Kurdish was Equal to a Crime.".- Chapter 3: Escape: "I had seen the deaths of my children with my own eyes.”.- Chapter 4: Asylum Processes and Challenges: “We neither die nor live but receive some breath.”.- Chapter 5: Towards Integration: "We cannot achieve integration without struggle.”.- Chapter 6: Self-Governance from below: “Self-help Services are Necessary to Mitigate our Suffering.- Chapter 7: Exile: Exile: “I have not dreamed of being here since I still live there”.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.